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Fw: Suggested modification to Euphoria's trace facility

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Jun 14, 2001
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo M. Forno" <rforno at tutopia.com>
To: <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
Subject: Suggested modification to Euphoria's trace facility


> I have noticed that, while tracing a program, the interpreter selects the
> variables to be traced nearly at random. When one asks for a specific
> variable to be shown, it does so, but if one continues tracing, this
> selected variable may be overridden by another selected by the
interpreter,
> and if one wants to see the variable, it must be specified again. This is
a
> bit awkward.
> What I suggest is that in the next version of the interpreter, the
variables
> specified for tracing by the user remain in effect until a new
specification
> is made.
> It would also be useful a native function alike to trace(1) or trace(0),
> that also indicates the names of variables to be traced or untraced.
> I thank you very much for your attention to this matter.
>